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Re: Top Ten Movies Per Year
Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 5:03 am
by epilogue
Dev wrote:The Argonaut wrote:There are still a couple I wanted to look at that I never got around to but tonight are the Oscars so here's a top 20 as it currently stands
Civil War was one of my most hated movies ever.
Civil War was great. Way better than most of the films "honored" in this Academy Awards.
Re: Top Ten Movies Per Year
Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 5:12 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: Top Ten Movies Per Year
Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 5:14 am
by epilogue
tragabigzanda wrote:Kneecap I haven’t even heard of that one
Re: Top Ten Movies Per Year
Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 5:15 am
by epilogue
But seriously... Kneecap is leagues better than Anora.
Re: Top Ten Movies Per Year
Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 5:15 am
by Anders
Don’t think Dime visits this thread.
Re: Top Ten Movies Per Year
Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 3:08 pm
by epilogue
Re: Top Ten Movies Per Year
Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 3:24 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: Top Ten Movies Per Year
Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 4:07 pm
by tommy
LV watched Anora yesterday and rated it 1 star.
Re: Top Ten Movies Per Year
Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 4:46 pm
by The Argonaut
tragabigzanda wrote:Argo while I quite liked Challengers, and struggle to see a world where it’s the best movie. Please state your case.
I liked it the most
Re: Top Ten Movies Per Year
Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 4:50 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: Top Ten Movies Per Year
Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 8:00 pm
by epilogue
Top 10 from 2024:
1. Wicked: Part One
2. The Fall Guy
3. Love Lies Bleeding
4. The Substance
5. Conclave
6. Civil War
7. Kneecap
8. Dune: Part Two
9. A Quiet Place: Day One
10. A Complete Unknown
Re: Top Ten Movies Per Year
Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 8:04 pm
by Anders
Thank you. Got all of those lined up.
Re: Top Ten Movies Per Year
Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 9:02 pm
by Jorge
epilogue wrote:Top 10 from 2024:
1. Wicked: Part One
2. The Fall Guy
3. Love Lies Bleeding
4. The Substance
5. Conclave
6. Civil War
7. Kneecap
8. Dune: Part Two
9. A Quiet Place: Day One
10. A Complete Unknown
What was your top 10 from 2022, do you remember?
Re: Top Ten Movies Per Year
Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 9:03 pm
by epilogue
Jorge wrote:epilogue wrote:Top 10 from 2024:
1. Wicked: Part One
2. The Fall Guy
3. Love Lies Bleeding
4. The Substance
5. Conclave
6. Civil War
7. Kneecap
8. Dune: Part Two
9. A Quiet Place: Day One
10. A Complete Unknown
What was your top 10 from 2022, do you remember?
I don't... but I might be able to look back and figure it out...
Re: Top Ten Movies Per Year
Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 9:16 pm
by epilogue
Looking back over the movies I saw from 2022:
1. The Banshees of Inisherin
2. Nope
3. Competencia Oficial
4. Tar
5. Babylon
6. Women Talking
7. Everything Everywhere All At Once
8. The Menu
9. The Batman
10. Don't Worry Darling
Re: Top Ten Movies Per Year
Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 9:27 pm
by epilogue
epilogue wrote:Okay, now that 2023 is over - my top 10 of 2023:
1. Barbie
2. Past Lives
3. Saltburn
4. American Fiction
5. Bottoms
6. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
7. Poor Things
8. May December
9. Fingernails
10. Theater Camp
I need to amend this because I made it before I'd seen All of Us Strangers
1. Barbie
2. Past Lives
3. Saltburn
4. All Of Us Strangers
5. American Fiction
6. Bottoms
7. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
8. Poor Things
9. May December
10. Fingernails
Re: Top Ten Movies Per Year
Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 10:45 pm
by Dev
2023 top 3
1. Zone of Interest
2. Dicks The Musical
3. Saltburn
The rest did not inspire me.
Re: Top Ten Movies Per Year
Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 10:52 pm
by Jorge
Goddamn did Saltburn suck, holy shit what a piece of crap
Re: Top Ten Movies Per Year
Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 10:53 pm
by tommy
I was entertained
Re: Top Ten Movies Per Year
Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 10:54 pm
by Dev
Jorge wrote:Goddamn did Saltburn suck, holy shit what a piece of crap
Jumps the shark in the end but first 2 acts are great.
